Casing for horse-collars.



No. 792,808.- PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905. w. 0. BARNETT.

CASING FOR HORSE OOLLARS.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 3, 1905.

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Witnesses No. 792,808. PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905. W. 0. BARNETT.

CASING FOR HORSE COLLARS.

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PATENT GFFICE.

CASING FOR HORSE-(DOLLARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,809, dated June 20, 1905.

Application filed January 3, 1905. Serial No. 239,397.

To all when), it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM OSBORNE BAR- NETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Americus, in the county of Sumner and State of Georgia, have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Collars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention appertains to casings for horse-collars, the object being to provide a collar section or casing which is made from a single piece of material which is so shaped and manipulated in the course of manufacture that the collar-casing is made from a one-piece blank and is connected by a single seam, the manner of connecting being such that in the completed and turned collar-casing one of the raw edges of the fabric will be within the easing and the other raw edge will be housed within a fold of the material.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of the casing or a piece of fabric shaped to be made into a collarsection, the dotted lines on such figure indicating the first fold, such pattern having a slitted portion connected by a puckered basting-seam. Fig. l is a section on the line 1 1. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the pattern, a portion thereof being folded upon itself and basted. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2. Fig. 3 is a plan View of a section of the casing as folded prior to attachinga wear-piece thereto. Fig; 3 is a section on the line 3 3. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the completed and connected pattern prior to being turned. Fig. 4: is a section on the line 4 4. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a collar-section made in accord with my invention, and Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5.

Referring to the drawings, A is the blank or pattern, preferably of canvas or duck, the configuration being substantially as shown. One of the sides of the blank or pattern is cut away to provide anotch or recess that is bounded by the edges or lines a, b, c, and Li. The blank is also slitted on a curved line which partially divides the same and provides the curved edges 0 and f. The margins or edges of the blank are referred to by the letters a, g, h, 41, in, Z, m, and w. The margins lb and k when brought together form a curved line which corresponds with the line f if continued parallel with the curved edge on.

The figures in order from 1 to 4, including the sectional views, indicate the mode of making a casing of a horse-collar, and to provide a complete collar for use two such sections are used, they being connected to each other at the top and bottom in the usual manner..

In practice apiece of fabric having a margin of the configuration shown by Fig.1 is slit, as at e, and the partially-separated blank is folded, as indicated by the dotted lines, the corner formed by the intersection of the edges 0' and a being laid over the corner at the j unction of the edges f and g. The pattern is now ready for basting, and as one edge is of greater length than the other the seam will be puckered on the longer edge. The edge on is next placed so as to overlie the basted portion, as is shown by Fig. 2, and is basted through three thicknesses of fabric, thus forming a pocket or casing, which eventually forms the fore or smaller wale B. The pattern, basted as shown by Fig. 2, is next folded as shown by Fig. 3, the wale B being Within the portion C that forms the after-wale of thecollar-section. After being folded the upper and the lower edges overlie and are connected to the underlying parts by bastings to hold the parts in place. The next operation is to stitch the wear-pieceD in place, as shown by Fig. 4, and in attaching the wear piece the corners formed at the junction of the edges 70 and a and (Z and i are placed near each other to give to the larger wale of the collar-section a certain degree of fullness that extends above and below the wear-piece D. After the wearpiece has been attached a seam or line of stitching is run along the edge, and, if desired, such seam may be paralleled by a second seam.

The casing shown by Fig. 4 is turned and is ready for stuffing, and when stuffed the ends are closed to form a collar-section, two sections being used to form the complete col- It will be noted that the stitching is not exposed, that one raw edge of the pattern is well within the after-wale, and that the other raw edge is covered by a fold; that no dart is present, the seam is made on the curve of the collar, and that a collar made in accord with my invention requires less material and sewing and the stitching is concealed within the after-Wale.

By basting in this specification I intend to convey the idea that the edges or parts of the pattern are temporarily held in place either by large stitches or other means, as pins, clamps, or other fastenings, and when connected by stitches they may be left in the pattern, as they will be beyond the final seam.

Having thus set forth my invention, what I claim as new, and'desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A casing for a section of a horse-collar consisting of a single piece of material provided with concave curved edges, two of such edges being brought in line and connected to overlie another curved edge and an intermediate curved longitudinal fold, the casing being connected by a line of stitches to form the wales.

2. A blank for a section of a horse-collar, consisting of a piece of material provided on one side with a concave edge, a curved slit extending from one edge inward parallel to such concave edge, the other edges including two curved edges which together approximate in length the length of the opposite outer edge.

3. A casing for a section of a horse-collar, made from a one-piece blank that is shaped and folded to provide fore and after wales, the folds being along the same line, one of the raw edges of the blank being housed within one of the folds and the other within the larger wale, substantially as shown.

' WILLIAM OSBORNE BARNETT.

Witnesses:

R. L. MAYNARD, E. L; MURRAY. 

